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Calls to raise threshold on letting spare rooms

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:12:50 GMT

The Chancellor should double the tax relief on income made from renting out a spare room when he delivers his pre-Budget report on 9 December, according to the National Landlords Association.
Source: The Independent

Plans to ease inheritance tax at risk

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:06:49 GMT

Homeowners hoping to be freed from crippling levels of inheritance tax could be hit by new austerity measures being considered for inclusion in next week's pre-budget report.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Author leads stinging RBS attack

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:05:31 GMT

Iain Banks, the best-selling novelist, and a group of MPs, church leaders, academics and environmentalists have this weekend written to Alistair Darling to protest at the involvement of Royal Bank of Scotland in financing hostile overseas takeovers and...
Source: The Observer

Alistair Darling rebuffs Gordon Brown on budget

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:45:41 GMT

GORDON BROWN is at war with Alistair Darling over budget plans as the chancellor fights off demands to produce an over-optimistic statement on economic recovery.
Source: Times Online

Don’t expect much blood from Alistair Darling's pre-budget report axe

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:19:37 GMT

Normally at this time of year I would be reflecting on the chancellor’s pre-budget report rather than looking forward to it. But the PBR is late — not until December 9 — so there are two Sundays to go.
Source: Times Online

Alistair Darling to nurture ‘fragile’ recovery in pre-budget report

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:04:28 GMT

Alistair Darling is set to present a “neutral” pre-budget report on December 9, without significant new tax rises or measures to curb public spending.
Source: Times Online

Alistair Darling in new clash with Gordon Brown over spending cuts

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:42:44 GMT

The key difference between Mr Darling and Mr Brown is over how upfront ministers should be with voters in the run-up to polling day Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND Treasury sources told The Sunday Telegraph that the Chancellor's speech on December 9 would...
Source: The Telegraph

Britain Defends Decision Not to Reveal Emergency Aid to Banks

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:19:44 GMT

LONDON — The British chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, on Wednesday defended a decision not to reveal £62 billion in emergency loans made to Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS at the height of the financial crisis last year.
Source: International Herald Tribune

Quoted in 'Wednesday 18th November 2009'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:54:14 GMT

said in ConservativeHome:

Alistair Darling and Ed Balls and were last night embroiled in a bitter feud over public spending. The Chancellor slapped down Mr Balls after he launched an audacious bid for a budget increase of £2.6billion over the next three years.

Quoted in 'Glasgow North East: Reality check for SNP'

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:59:56 GMT

said in Edinburgh Daily News:

They might have been able to tell people that it was Labour that was doing the cutting. On the Glasgow Airport Rail Link, we should have turned around to Iain Gray (the Scottish Labour leader] and said yes, you have a good point about it, so why don't you get onto Alistair Darling and ask him for £300 million more?

Photo from Getty Images

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:04:39 GMT

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: G20 finance ministers and bank govenors gather for the family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland.

Photo from Getty Images

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:04:24 GMT

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: G20 finance ministers and bank govenors gather for the family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland.

Alistair Darling answers your Conference questions

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:55:55 GMT